Shot by San Francisco Police Department, 19-Year-Old’s Life Slips Away | Common Dreams. Watch the video. The biggest gang in America, aka the police, are at it again. Where’s the gun? Apparently everyone in the video had the same question. Why would you still be standing with guns drawn on a man who is clearly …
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How Many States That Ban Gay Marriage Let You Marry Your Cousin?. That’s not a good look America. How can someone say gay marriage will destroy the American family but 19 states are basically promoting hemophilia by virtue of incest? Craziness…
Tupac Shakur was often called a contradiction because he had songs like “Keep Ya Head Up” and “I Get Around” on the same albums. These same “contradictions” are what made so many fans consider him the realest artist in the genre. Tupac didn’t just tell one story or use a singular perspective. He covered a …
Murdoch Has Gamed American Politics Every Bit as Thoroughly as Britain’s | Common Dreams. This has nothing to do with the ideological positions of entities like Fox News or the Wall Street Journal. Just check out what Murdoch’s lobbying has allowed him to do: “But Murdoch kept at the latter fight, continuing to push for …
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Is there a such thing as dishearteningly inspirational? I read a blurb on The Root this evening that might fit the term. While discussing 13 year old prodigy Autum Ashante’s push to be reinstated at the University of Connecticut, writer Lynette Holloway stated that one possible reason the school rescinded her acceptance was because of …
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Check out how the city of Sandy is creating its own city-run internet provider. That’s one way to fight back against attacks on net neutrality. http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2011/07/sandy_fiber_internet_project_t.html
Have you ever clicked on a random friend on your Facebook profile that you didn’t recognize, only to have it be an impostor that gets deleted minutes later? It happened to me once and I thought I was having an episode but here’s a column from the Huffington Post that could help explain what really …
Latin America holds one fifth of world’s oil – Features – Al Jazeera English. Good to keep in mind whenever the US does anything in Latin America. Also why they want to dispose Hugo Chavez so badly.
The saying goes, “Behind every great fortune is a great crime.” In that sense, Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, is akin to P.J. Kennedy. Kennedy ran a bootlegging operation during Prohibition, which won him popularity and guaranteed him success when he ran for political office. Since, his descendants have accumulated massive wealth and political power (and …
Protests Grow in Solidarity with California Prisoners as Hunger Strikes Enter Third Week. Check out this Democracy Now! story on the 3rd week of California prisoner hunger strikes. These people would rather die than continue to be tortured.